Flea Market Jesus
Flea Market Jesus

Author: Arthur E. Farnsley

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2012-06-01

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1610979850

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Americans live their lives through institutions: government, businesses, schools, clubs, and houses of worship. But many Americans are wary of the control these groups--especially government and business--exercise over their lives. Flea Market Jesus provides an up-close look at the rugged individualism of those trying hardest to separate themselves from institutions: flea market dealers. Having spent most of his life studying American religious organizations, Art Farnsley turns his attention to America's most solitary, and alienated, entrepreneurs. Farnsley describes an entire subculture of white Midwesterners--working class, middle class, and poor--gathered together in a uniquely American celebration of guns and frontier life. In this mix, the character "Cochise" voices the frustrations of flea market dealers toward business, politics, and, especially, religion. Part ethnography, part autobiography, Flea Market Jesus is a story about alienation, biblical literalism, libertarianism, and deep-seated religious belief. It is not about the Tea Party, the Occupy movement, or the Christian Right, but it shines a light on all of these by highlighting the potent combination of mistrust, resentment, and personal liberty too often kept in the shadows of public discourse among educated elites.

They Like Jesus But Not the Church
They Like Jesus But Not the Church

Author: Dan Kimball

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0310245907

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Kimball provides an overview of the six most common objections emerging generations have with church and Christianity along with the biblical answers to these objections and examples of how churches are facing this challenge.

Solo Planet
Solo Planet

Author: Anna Broadway

Publisher: NavPress

Published: 2024-03-19

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1641586877

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How can the church do better for its millions of singles? Journalist Anna Broadway traveled around the world to interview nearly 350 Christians for answers. Solo Planet draws on her 17 months of fieldwork to provide a first-of-its-kind account of the single life of Christians from nearly 50 countries. Discussing a variety of topics—loneliness, sexuality, aging, housing, cooking, celebrations, parenting, and many more, it gives us the global-church story of singleness. Because when singles thrive in a church, everyone benefits. But consider these typical barriers within most churches: Singles and marrieds often don’t know how to talk to each other. Christians continue to act as if nearly all will marry—and if you don’t, then something must be wrong with you. Churches teach that marriage and family is God’s greatest gift outside of salvation—a perspective that deserves theological challenge. Women in the church outnumber men by a factor of millions—and churches do very little to acknowledge this gap. Solo Planet calls Christians to a more faithful vision of singleness through the wisdom and stories of the global church: young and old; abled and disabled; and Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox. Through its deeply researched account, Solo Planet shows how a more biblical approach to singleness can strengthen churches and empower singles to thrive.

Journey through the New Testament
Journey through the New Testament

Author: William F. Cook III

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Published: 2022-07-05

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1496461940

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Walk through the New Testament with Dr. William Cook, a respected professor at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary With Journey through the New Testament, you’ll gain a grasp of the major themes of each New Testament book. You’ll have at your fingertips Concise and comprehensive overviews of each New Testament book The key teachings from the life of Christ in one place The crucial and practical implications of each New Testament book A thorough guide to the teachings, outline, and structure of the New Testament, book by book Journey through the New Testament helps you gain a complete understanding of the teachings of Jesus and how the early Christians thought and lived out their beliefs. It is a solid foundation of biblical knowledge on which you can build a deeper understanding of Scripture and God’s ultimate purposes. Start your journey into the New Testament today.

The Unusual Suspect
The Unusual Suspect

Author: Stephen Baldwin

Publisher: FaithWords

Published: 2007-09-12

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 044640389X

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Stephen Baldwin reveals his unbelievable change from a hardcore party boy to a hardcore follower of Jesus Christ. The core of his message: "You must be willing to try faith God's way, not yours, and when you do you will find a life beyond anything you could have dreamed."

Jesus Was a Country Boy
Jesus Was a Country Boy

Author: Clay Walker

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-04-02

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1451682867

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A country music superstar talks about Jesus and the simple, faith-based lessons that he learned from his father. Clay writes with a lack of pretense and a hands-on attitude toward life, drawing from his own humble beginnings and reminding readers what it means to be grounded in faith.

The Price of Poverty
The Price of Poverty

Author: Dan Dohan

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2003-12-01

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0520937279

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Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in two impoverished California communities—one made up of recent immigrants from Mexico, the other of U.S.-born Chicano citizens—this book provides an invaluable comparative perspective on Latino poverty in contemporary America. In northern California’s high-tech Silicon Valley, author Daniel Dohan shows how recent immigrants get by on low-wage babysitting and dish-cleaning jobs. In the housing projects of Los Angeles, he documents how families and communities of U.S.-born Mexican Americans manage the social and economic dislocations of persistent poverty. Taking readers into worlds where public assistance, street crime, competition for low-wage jobs, and family, pride, and cross-cultural experiences intermingle, The Price of Poverty offers vivid portraits of everyday life in these Mexican American communities while addressing urgent policy questions such as: What accounts for joblessness? How can we make sense of crime in poor communities? Does welfare hurt or help?

Birthing the Sermon
Birthing the Sermon

Author: Jana Childers

Publisher: Chalice Press

Published: 2001-05-31

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0827202423

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Where do preachers get their ideas for sermons, and how do they turn those ideas into great sermons week after week? Sharing their experiences, these dynamic women preachers take us through their process from conception, through development, to the actual delivery of the sermon and beyond. Each chapter includes a sermon that illustrates the results of that preacher's labor of love. Contributors include: Barbara Shires Blaisdell, Teresa L. Fry Brown, Jana Childers, Linda L. Clader, Yvette Flunder, Mary G. Graves, Linda Carolyn Loving, Barbara K. Lundblad, Karen Stokes, Barbara Brown Taylor, Mary Donovan Turner, Margaret Moers Wenig.

John
John

Author: Robert W. Yarbrough

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2011-07-01

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1725229870

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The Gospel of John is perhaps the most personal memoir of the life and work of Jesus Christ. John, the disciple whom Jesus loved, manages more fully to combine poignant and memorable vignettes with longer teaching passages than do the other gospel writers. Besides being the gospel of love, Robert Yarbrough points out, John also meant his record to be a gospel of testimony. John's gospel could also be called one of invitation. The accounts of the Samaritan woman, Nicodemus, Lazarus, and others end with a call to follow Jesus. They have about them the brisk air of an eyewitness and convey a rush of urgency to convince and convert. With a sure hand on the Greek text and a readable style, Yarbrough walks you through John's account of the last years of Jesus' life. In a sense you, too, become an eyewitness to God's love incarnate.